Tag: communities

• Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool

  July 16, 2025

  The uneasy Web 2.0 truce between social networks, legacy media, and brands is falling apart. Once it was held together by ad tech. But advertising spends keep going up, brand… more ›

• Discogs’ vibrant vinyl community is shattering

  October 8, 2023

  If you are a devoted vinyl collector, an obsessive music fan, or — as is often the case — both, Discogs is very nearly a lifestyle. https://www.theverge.com/23899461/discogs-sellers-vinyl-cds-community-fees more ›

• Reality Intrudes on a Utopian Crypto Vision

  March 10, 2022

  WASHINGTON — American CryptoFed is a new kind of company spawned by the advent of cryptocurrency — one that claims, in a way, not to be a company at all.… more ›

• Benevolent force

  December 29, 2020

  Left to its own devices, thermodynamics will revert us and everything we built back to the state of nature. Left to our own, we humans seem increasingly oblivious and willing… more ›

• Remote culture

  December 15, 2020

  The post-pandemic euphoria is inevitable. After a couple of rounds of the global vaccination efforts, we should expect a thirsty and voluptuous return to the physical world of events and… more ›

• Undressing for redress: the significance of Nigerian women’s naked protests

  September 9, 2020

  Social media went abuzz on July 23, 2020, when hundreds of women – mostly naked – staged a protest in the northwestern state of Kaduna, Nigeria. Wailing and rolling on… more ›

• What if Facebook goes down? Ethical and legal considerations for the demise of big tech

  August 16, 2020

  Society is becoming increasingly dependent on data-rich, “Big Tech” platforms and social networks, such as Facebook and Google. But what happens to our data when these companies close or fail?… more ›

• Identities of the World

  July 11, 2020

  Globally, billions of adults have no bank account. No bank account means no ability to save money for a family, to borrow to support a business, to send and receive money… more ›

• Mapping Makoko: How data could help legitimize Nigeria’s informal settlements

  May 17, 2020

  MAKOKO, Nigeria — On Jan. 21 Shedrach Zunze woke up to the sound of gunshots in his home in Tarkwa Bay, the little corridor of the Lagos Lagoon, on the… more ›

• The I in We

  June 23, 2019

  In early January, employees of the We Company, formerly known as WeWork, gathered in Los Angeles for its annual summit. As with many of the company’s events, it was more tent… more ›